The Porpoise
Mark Haddon
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars
3.40
· 30 ratings · 297 pages · Published: 09 May 2019
A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash.
She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world.
When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail…
So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears. A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore; in which pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler’s hand, and ghost women with lampreys’ teeth drag a man to hell – and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home.
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- fantasy 4
- historical 3
- historical fiction 3
- literary fiction 3
- folktales & legends 3
- retellings 2
- magical realism 2
- action / adventure 2
- drama 2
- classics 2
- family 2
- supernatural 1
- ancient civilization 1
- dark 1
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- audiobook 3
- book 1
- adult fiction 1